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Guildhall

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1898 Guildhall Unknown Owner
1899 Guildhall West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Company Limited
1915 Guildhall Letricheux Line Ltd

Fate

Bound from Valencia for Cardiff with a cargo of oranges & ore Guildhall was torpedoed by German submarine (U-62 Ernst Hashagen) & sank 40 miles off Bishop Rock, Scilly Isles on 25 June 1917. 12 lives lost including master.

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